Sealed Air Corporation begins a yearlong 85th anniversary celebration of CRYOVAC® brand food packaging, honoring the innovation, service and collaboration that has defined its food packaging legacy. Since the trademark was filed in 1941,...

Imagine a customer orders two deliveries of the same product—one from you and one from your competitor. Your product shows up in a brown box with bubble wrap. Meanwhile, your competitor’s product arrives in a...

Markets are shifting, and diners want something new with every order. Innovative, sustainable food packaging is making it easier for foodservice operators to keep pace. These last few years, foodservice and packaging have been defined...

ProAmpac, a global innovator in flexible packaging and material science, today announced the appointment of Jeffrey Lee, an accomplished financial leader in the manufacturing industry, as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, effective February 9,...

The legislation continues an ongoing discussion at the federal level over the role of chemical recycling in advancing U.S. domestic supply chains and creating jobs. ACC and other groups say more federal policies and investments...

New year, new packaging requirements. In certain states, there are newly added parameters and restrictions governing packaging materials, labeling and types that have taken effect in January or will later in 2026. There are also...

Melody (Yun Han) Huang works her way down to one of the tables near the lectern in the front of the vast banquet room, settling in with a plate of breakfast food to hear a...

When it comes to recycling flexible packaging, there are four kinds of people: those who are committed to the cause; those who are motivated and could be persuaded to do more; those who are thoughtful...

Digital printing has made significant inroads among companies that print on labels and folding cartons. But the technology faces a more complicated path when it comes to pouches, wrappers, and other flexible packaging. Technological development...

If your company manufactures or supplies flexible packaging materials for the medical sector, there is a place for you in the Sterilization Packaging Manufacturers Council (SPMC®). As a vital subgroup of the Flexible Packaging Association...

As we embarked on the Flexible Packaging Association’s (FPA) federal advocacy plans for 2026, we started by assessing our efforts in 2025—what worked well, issues and policy shifts that arose that require more focus, and...

Each year, the world produces roughly 100 million tons of flexible multilayer plastic packaging—materials that keep food fresh and pharmaceuticals safe from moisture and oxygen. Yet most of these plastics are nearly impossible to recycle...

The global Packaging-as-a-Service (PaaS) market is growing quickly, and experts predict it will generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue from 2025 to 2034. This growth is driven by the increasing demand for eco-friendly,...

As interest in sustainable packaging manifests in state policy, packaging manufacturers face evolving post-consumer recycled (PCR) content mandates. While current regulations mostly target rigid plastic containers and beverage bottles, 2026 is likely to see an...

The Center for the Circular Economy, in collaboration with American Beverage, recently released a best practices guide for materials recovery facilities (MRFs) in the U.S., supporting MRFs in their work to optimize recovery rates, increase...

Last September, the Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) and its Emerging Leadership Council (ELC) held the third annual Washington, D.C., advocacy fly-in event that is now officially called the FPA FlexFly-In. It was the first time...

If you’ve ever stood at your recycling bin wondering whether a package’s chasing arrows symbol means you can actually recycle it, you’re not alone. A new bill in Congress, the PACK Act, aims to change...

The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) is seeking additional clarification on the TSCA PFAS Reporting and Recordkeeping Rule, with regard to its applicability to processors generally and to processors that import materials which they do not...

Looking back on business and industrywide highs and lows, numbers help capture the year that was. Packaging Dive rounded up highlights from extended producer responsibility news, M&A announcements, manufacturing and workforce developments and sustainability updates...

Five years ago, Cortec® introduced Eco Wrap® as the world’s first patented compostable industrial-strength machine-grade stretch film. This blown film is produced with certified compostable resin and a proprietary tackifier additive. Cortec® now introduces the...

The associations listed below are pleased to provide written comments and recommendations in response to the information collection proposed by the Department of Commerce’s (Commerce or the Department) Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) addressing...

COIM USA is proud to announce that, in our third year participating in the EcoVadis assessment, we have been awarded the EcoVadis Silver Medal for our New Jersey operations. This year’s result marks a meaningful...

The quest for accurate plastic sorting has reached a pivotal moment. After years of development and testing, digital watermark technology has finally proven it can deliver the precision needed to transform how Europe handles post-consumer...

A custom label printer in Wilmington is permanently closing, adding to a growing list of Massachusetts manufacturers that have shut down or moved operations elsewhere as the state’s manufacturing footprint continues to shrink. In a...

The associations listed below are pleased to provide written comments and recommendations in response to the information collection proposed by the Department of Commerce’s (Commerce or the Department) Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) addressing...

State-level extended producer responsibility for packaging programs may be new in the United States, but they’ve already inspired a search for a more unified solution. As more states pursue EPR individually and producer expenses mount,...

Constantia Flexibles has retained its EcoVadis Platinum rating for 2025, reaffirming its position among the top 1% of companies worldwide assessed globally based on environmental, social and governance criteria. Building on its first Platinum recognition...

Cortec® continues to be a leader in electronics packaging innovation with its new release of EcoSonic® VpCI®-125 HP Permanent ESD Stretch Film. Unlike the plethora of “pink poly” stretch films on the market to protect...